Re: Contractor sentenced to 18 months for hiring illegal aliens

Re: Contractor sentenced to 18 months for hiring illegal aliens

Now your getting to the root of the problem. Illegals are coming here taking skilled labor jobs for less pay because these employers can get by with it. They are the ones undermining our economy for their own greed...

U.S. District Judge David Bunning told Pratt during the hearing that his role in organizing, paying, housing and transporting the illegal workers to their jobs called for a substantial sentence. Pratt not only used his cultural connections to Mexican workers to take advantage of them - he is bilingual and of Mexican descent - but he used his own children to set up and run some of his companies, Bunning said.
Pratt also betrayed his fellow countrymen in the United States by using the illegal immigrants, a cheap source of labor that denies better paying jobs to those here legally and puts honest businesses at a competitive disadvantage, said Bunning.